Monument record MDO1159 - Bowl Barrow, Pound Hill, Frampton

`B' - SY 62639157. A flinty bowl barrow, 18.0m diameter and 1.3m high. <3>

`B' - SY 62639158. A bowl barrow, 17 paces in diameter and 4ft high. <4>

`B'. SY 62639157. Bowl barrow, diameter 19.0m, height 0.7m. All the barrows are in pasture, but have been ploughed down. None has a visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <6>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow visible as a cropmark and earthwork on aerial photographs north of Pound Hill. <7-8>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(`A' - SY 62259161; `B' - SY 62639157) Tumulus (NR) (Twice)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 116 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(16) BARROWS, to the W. of the road and near the S.E. angle of the parish, are four in number. … The second (b), a bowl barrow, 420 yards E. of (a), is 50 ft. in diam. and 4 ft. high; it has been much disturbed by rabbits.'

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 30-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 109 (Monograph). SDO132.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(`A' - SY 62259161; `B' - SY 62639157) Tumulus (NR) twice

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 10-MAR-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<7> Royal Air Force, 09-MAR-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2475 4068-70 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11157.

<8> 04-AUG-1995, NMR SY 6291/10 (15344/18) (Aerial Photograph). SDO11158.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453669 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 17 2024 11:57AM